It looks like a lot of the reporting is that he isn't expected to come back, and given his age and where the team is, even if they end up a fringe playoff contender it would probably make sense not to try to rush him back. It's disappointing, though (ignoring my bet on him winning DROY that was looking real good before the injury). He was already at least right on the cusp of being a game changing defender, and it's really fun to watch those guys emerge. I'm still not entirely sure what teams were looking at for him to get to us twice.
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If your bread is boring you need better bread.
Good bread doesn't need anything else.
Podcasts have minimal writing and terrible production. Even the insanely well developed ones are obscenely cheaper per hour than a halfassed audiobook.
I think the biggest issue with audiobooks is all the extra people it takes. An author does most of the work on a book, and while advances do exist, they're mostly established authors who already have a known audience. Ultimately, they make money if a book sells. Obviously printing isn't free, but it's not crazy and doesn't scale up costs that much.
An audiobook still pays the author, but it also has a bunch of extra up front costs. You need a sound studio, you need a narrator, and you need audio mastering. All of these cost good money up front, the costs scale up with length. The 45 hour Brandon Sanderson Way of Kings is going to cost a lot more to make than a short 5 hour beach read, and because of the length inherently have lower floors and ceilings on volume than something shorter. You need to charge more to the enthusiasts who want that content to offset the extra costs. I'm honestly not sure if Amazon is using those as a loss leader knowing that those readers usually read a lot of books, or if they're bullying the publishers into giving them a discount, but either way I don't think anyone else can afford it.
I'm way too lazy to jump through the hoops of reinstalling games, but when I get a less tiny SSD and have to jump through hoops anyways, it does seem like it's worth trying.
They do have a library of stuff they own or license, too, though I personally am not interested in much of it. It's worth mentioning that some of it involves reasonable investment with celebrity readers or more expensive production. (I can't stand any of that. A second reader for different chapters is tolerable; more is not.)
It's 36 for 3 credits after that, with occasional sales of two specific titles for one credit or discounts on cash price. I'm not sure how they structure their actual deals with publishers, but I am reasonably sure that they're leveraging their market position hard to sell some of those books at those prices, because they're way less than anywhere else including other formats.
15 hours makes the whole "we include audiobooks in your subscription" to be a pretty token service, though. That's not that much time.
There is at least one actual subscription audiobook service that is close to unlimited* and has a decent library (though it's older and less known content, and discoverability it pretty bad). I've found several series I've read 10-20 books in a row of a month through scribd. (I can provide a referral for a free trial on request. Not trying to advertise though). I'm guessing Spotify is going for high profile stuff, though, and that costs more.
*How it works is that certain publisher deals will only let you listen to a certain number from an author or in a series in a month, then you have to wait until the next month for the rest. But you can still access the rest of their library.
They don't own the books. Even as a dominant market force in audiobooks, the best Amazon can do is one book credit a month and a small mediocre library of content they do actually own.
Spotify doesn't have the capability to get licensing that allows for unlimited access.
The default one.
I just started watching through 24 again and have been really tempted to figure out how to get the phones as my ring tone.
Only problem is I'll never hear it because my phone is on silent 100% of the time.
Libby only supports kindle.
Both do support Android, though. There are Android ereaders available, and while they're mostly Chinese companies I don't personally trust much, low powered for tablets, and old Android with minimal support in terms of upgrades, I personally think the trade off is worth it compared to how limited your choices on proprietary readers are. I wouldn't put confidential documents on them, but I also probably wouldn't trust Amazon with that either.
lol the blowout loss wasn't bad enough. Had to lose our two best defenders for meaningful time, too.
Judon is basically for sure done for the year. Edge depth is still pretty solid, but he's a big loss.
Gonzalez might not be done for the year, but a torn labrum isn't minor. He was singlehandedly masking the fact that our CB2, CB3, and CB4 were out, taking on high leverage assignments routinely (he also got help at times, but they weren't afraid not to give it to him) and not letting us be punished for it. The play after he got hurt, Lamb got vertical for an easy touchdown, and it didn't get better from there. They just don't have bodies left with so many guys out, and it's really hard to mitigate that.
This defense can still be really good if other guys get back on the field (primarily corner), but it's a lot harder without them.
JC Jackson for basically free is a good addition, though. He looked bad in LA after the lower body injuries, but it's not his fault they thought it was a good idea to play him on Tyreek Hill when that was never his ideal matchup type, either. He's an upgrade(quite possibility on pure athleticism too) from the other options we have outside, and just as importantly, he has a very strong background in what his responsibilities are in our different coverage looks. A history of lower body injuries can end a career, but it can also just take time to get the explosiveness back. If he does get it back in the offseason, you have a very good corner who understands our system on a reasonable contract; if he doesn't you can release him at no cost.
One other suggestion for game mode with kids: you can use decky loader with the CSS Loader plugin to customize the experience and remove elements that you don't think are needed. I'm not sure if you can straight up hide the store completely or not, but you can definitely hide the news and other tabs that might have content you're unsure of.
I do find the idea that "the GUI is a Microsoft conspiracy to use their market share to make people too dumb to use computers" instead of "the GUI is why they have their market share" kind of amusing, though.
I absolutely see the value of explicitly dictating what you want with clear, precise text commands. I love using short simple scripts to get shit done for myself. But I have absolutely no interest in using the command line to navigate directories and files. It's perfectly fine that it's an option, but as the only option it's kind of shit.